COLUMBIA, S.C. — Former House Speaker Paul Ryan on Wednesday made a rare political endorsement of U.S. Rep. Tom Rice in a Congressional race that has him once again squaring off against former President Donald Trump and others in the GOP who are looking for “vengeance” against Republicans who impeached the former president last year.
It’s an inter-party battle, as Rice has said, between “nerds” like himself and Ryan who care about enacting conservative policy and “flamethrowers” who place allegiance to Trump over policy ideas and other convictions.
But that stance has placed Republicans like Rice, who’s represented South Carolina’s 7th district for a decade, and Ryan squarely in Trump’s cross hairs.
